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Re: 20050131: netcdf -3.6.0 problem

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  • Subject: Re: 20050131: netcdf -3.6.0 problem
  • Date: 31 Jan 2005 15:42:03 -0700
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> >To: <address@hidden>
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> >Subject: netcdf -3.6.0 problem
> >Organization: German Aerospace Centre
> >Keywords: 200501311226.j0VCQhv2026767 netCDF 3.6.0
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I am hoping that you could provide some advice. I am trying to run a climate
> model written in fortran 90 on a sun ULTRA workstation. The model crashes
> on the first timestep.  I get a core file which, on debugging says: 
> 
> "a floating point exception in the line "float xx = (float) *ip;"
> - the above line occurs in file ~netcdf/netdcf-3.6.0/src/libsrc.
> 
> I have installed netcdf 3.6.0  - is it possible that the error
> is a version problem, i.e. should I install an earlier version of netcdf?
> When I search the web for earlier versions to install, they are actually quite
> hard to find, and many links lead back to the unidata site. 
> 
> If my message is not appropriate for this email address then I 
> apologise - maybe you could advise where I should ask?
> 
> I enclose some Makefiles statements from my model below.
> 
> Thanks in advance for your help.
> 
> Dr John Lee Grenfell
> 
> German Aerospace Centre
> Institute for Planetary Research
> Rutherfordstr. 2
> 12489 Berlin
> Germany
> 
> Tel: +49 30 67055-337
> 
> Makefile statements
> --------------------
> 
> Compile options:
> f90 -dusty -Kieee -maxcontin=40 -132 -lm -c -g -r8const -O4
> -tune ev56 -arch ev56 -xlibmil -xlibmopt
> 
> Linking and running:
> a.out : $(src_obj)
> f90 -o $@ $(src_obj) -xlibmopt -xlibmil -L/$HOME/netcdf/netcdf-3.6.0/lib 
> -lnetcdf -lm
> f.o : $(FC) $*.f -xlibmopt -xlibmil
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Howdy!

Firstly, do we know if the F90 tests ran successfully when netcdf was
installed?

Go to whereever netcdf was installed and do a "make test" and send me
the output.

Thanks,

Ed
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Ed Hartnett  -- address@hidden